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25 Inspiring “Success” Quotes

We all want to live a life we are proud of. Success is not one way street but it is a journey where you can have both ups and downs but the most important thing is to never stop trying.

I know that we all have some days when we just want to quit everything but in those hard times we need to find the strength to carry on.

Here are 25 inspiring success quotes that can help you go through some tough times and remind you why you started doing something in the first place.

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” — Bob Dylan

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” — Herbert Bayard Swope

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” — C. Fields

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.” — Marilyn Monroe

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” — Bette Midler

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston S. Churchill

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. “ — Coco Chanel

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” — Oscar Wilde

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. “ — Walt Disney Company

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. “ — Mark Twain

“We learn from failure, not from success!” — Bram Stoker

“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” — Roy T. Bennett

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call ‘the breaks.” — Countee Cullen

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” — Brian Tracy

I so LOVE any and every Maya Angelou quote. My fav here is, “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Thanks Maya for reminding me that right here, right now, I am successful.

You can’t beat an inspiring quote no matter who you are. If you are on your journey to success then it gives you a boost to keep on going, and if you haven’t started then they give you a kick up the backside to get up and start doing things. Thanks for sharing all of these wonderful quotes.

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
— Oscar Wilde
Favorite. I get more sympathy from friends when something wrong happens than when something right. It’s odd.

I love these quotes, and the people who they come from. My favorites I think are the Rumi that led me to this page and the Bob Dylan. I’d love to invite you to add this page (and any other you think fits) to my MH linky on my blog, called “Off-Fridays”..the current theme is “celebrations” and I think this is a beautiful celebration of life and humanity…I would be totally honored if you’d add it to be archived with the others.